Time-varying coefficient model estimation through radial basis functions

Diffusion Propagator Estimation Using Radial Basis Functions

The average diffusion propagator (ADP) obtained from diffusion MRI (dMRI) data encapsulates important structural properties of the underlying tissue. Measures derived from the ADP can be potentially used as markers of tissue integrity in characterizing several mental disorders. Thus, accurate estimation of the ADP is imperative for its use in neuroimaging studies. In this work, we propose a sim...

Robust Estimation of Time-varying Coefficient Functions - Application to the Modeling of Wind Power Production

Bayesian Bandwidth Estimation in Nonparametric Time-Varying Coefficient Models

Bandwidth plays an important role in determining the performance of nonparametric estimators, such as the local constant estimator. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian approach to bandwidth estimation for local constant estimators of time–varying coefficients in time series models. We establish a large sample theory for the proposed bandwidth estimator and Bayesian estimators of the unknown pa...

Radial basis functions

Radial basis function methods are modern ways to approximate multivariate functions, especially in the absence of grid data. They have been known, tested and analysed for several years now and many positive properties have been identified. This paper gives a selective but up-to-date survey of several recent developments that explains their usefulness from the theoretical point of view and contr...

Deformable Radial Basis Functions

Radial basis function networks (RBF) are efficient general function approximators. They show good generalization performance and they are easy to train. Due to theoretical considerations RBFs commonly use Gaussian activation functions. It has been shown that these tight restrictions on the choice of possible activation functions can be relaxed in practical applications. As an alternative differ...